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lIMIBMBER ! "WE WAIT SUPPER for Ton t►ot of er the Covent Garden Opera, at EVANS'. Fail LL WHISKY v. COGNAC! • BRANDY. p b Tlll l celebrat e d Old IRIS a WHISKY rivals the finest 4 iNCH BRANDY, lt 1 5 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. 2o!d in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by 4 4ents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale 8 , GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. %23serve nahan's tiILL We Redhisky. Seal, ". Pink Label, and Cork branded • ma INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY, U. K. LECTURES, 1861-65.th 'ilif tEE COURSES of LECTURES will be delivered I,e of the Society on MONDAY and FRIDAY EVEN -1.;`28 in the mon th s or November, December January, Feb 1/41Y, and March next, at Eight o'clock precisely. B CONVEYANCING LECTURES, Y uostrn NAPIER HIGGINS, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. 1 4 ., I ntroduction —Touching upon some of the most impor u, Modern alterations in the Law of Real Property. I L —111. —Leases Subjects cf Demise. Lessors and Lessees —their Rights and Liabilities. 2• T▪ eases under Powers. he Instrument of Demise—usual Covenants and Con diti ns , . &c . Assignmeat of Leaseholds. 4 Mortgages . 1 . Nature of Estate of Mortgagrr and Mortgagee. :,. Usual Forms of Legal Mortgages of Real Estate , , lquitable Mortgages by Deposit. 4 . lortgages of Personal Estate, including Choses in • Action. 5, Mortgages under Powers. including Mortgages by Devisees in Trust and Executors (see 22 aLd 23 Vic., c. 35, §§ 14 18). thvelivroThe Mortmain Act (9 Geo. 2, c. 36), and in particular of Me an ` r . 'le sometimes adopted for avoiding its Provisions by of Q. ei Secret Trusts. • Reference will be made to the ease -9.weeting v. Sweet ing." (33 L. J. Ch. 211). 1 ,. The various kinds of Statutory Conveyances—the Mltes and the Construction of Deeds generally. :" 4 X. Marriage Settlements— ! 9rlinary Settlement of Personalty. 2. Ordinary Settlement of Realty. 4. Settlements by Infants and other Persons of Restricted 4 . l f,PstetY (18 and 19 ,0. i y to a Settlement. a . Lqu „. e Doctrina of Separate Use. Portions —and the Doctrines of Ademption and Satia faction. XI • r, . ora XLI• Cre Pailles' and Partnership Deeds. shi p ditors' Trust Deeds—Composi ion and • (Bankruptcy Act, 1861, § 192). Inspector - By x o EQUITY LECTURE:], NTAGIIE HUGHES, COOKSON, ESQ., Barrister-at-Law. J Thin Course will consist of 12 Lectures on the Statutory li'ellAniction of the Court of hancery'. to be delivered as 1. .;. 48 Possible in the following order : the Nature, Extent, and Limits of the Statutory „, J urisdiction. • Abe Trustee Relief and Trustee Further Relief Acts 3.41 ( 1 0 and 11 Vic., 3 . 96, and 12 and 13 Vie., 0. 74). .Vie Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1815 (8 and 9 s. Vic ~ e. 18). The Leases and Sales of Settle 1 Estates Act, and Amendment and Further Amendment Acts (19 and 20 Vie., c 120, 21, and 22 Vic., c. 77, and 27 and 28 0. Att„, e Trustee Act. 1850, and Trustee Extension Act, 7. 1852 (13 and 11 Vic. c. fO, and 15 and 16 Vie, c. 65). Sir Georg•e Turner's Act, and Thc Real Property A-mendment and Further Amendment Acts (andld 1$ e. 35, 22 and 23 Vic., O. 35, § 3), and 23 24 R. , c., § 9). u• The Infant's Custody and Infant's Settlern:nt Acts (2 and 3 Vic. c. 51, and 18 and 19 Vic., 0. 43). to • The Chancery Amendment Act, 1858, and The Chancery Regulation Oct, 1862 (21 and 22 Via., C. 27, and /5 and v. _ 26 ic ,0. 42). • im 1 . 12 . The V Companies Act, 1802 (25 and 20 Vic., c. 89). addition to the Cases which willbe cited from the Irf v te , Ihe General Orders and Reg,ulst ons of tCor e t the be referred to and commented on in connection with h s everal Acta of Parliament. co 113 / 1 0 N LAW AND MERCANTILE LAW LECTURES, —UGH SHIELD, Esq., Barrister -at-Law. Courts —III. Th e Laws a d m t n i s tered in the Com mon Law with respe't to Associations formed, for purposes of C a ,....'"Mereantile Partnerships—Joint k t oo k Companies yerations. T he Leading Distinctions tetween these three Forms of 41sR ociation—Sketch of the History of Legislation as to Joint Stock Companies. Mercantile Partnerships— What Agreements ‘.• e. "rt te Actua l Partnerships. II 3 .1 - P artnerships as rez ards third Persons. ' The Liabi fries of Partnerships for the Acts of a Partner. /ken ins by and against Partne-ships. The Rel-tions of Partners inter se.—Deeds of A.rrange • Melt under the Bankruptcy Laws. , 417 .—V.E. Joint Stock Companies — e Companies Act, 1862. The Companies Clauses Consol idation Act, 1845. Abe Liability of Promoters and Directors e! Companies for Misrepresentations in Prosp ectuse , and Reports. Railway Shares and Debentures —Actions for Calls— Ltoyd's Bonds. Contracts with Corporations. , In this branch the Lecturer will not attempt to ex -1 t a complete view of Company Law, the object being l'!i,ther to illustrate the general principle of the Common Law 1•13' reference to Companies. ibrll. The Assessment of Co m p ensation for Lands taken or uriously affected under the Lands Clauses Act, 1815. VIII. The Law of carriers, with spnial reference to hail tray Companies as Carilers. F . X. Them axim, Respondeat Superior. illustrated by' re ference to actions against Railway Companies for negligence 4 their servants. --XII. The last three Lectures will 1 be _d t e u v l o e t s e , d to the and the Ammon Law Procedure Act s a n d Pleading general course of Practice in Actions at Law. For all the For each The Subscription payable— Three Courses. Course. Ciere sof Members £2 0 0 .. £ 1 10 0 1 0 0 i lerks of Gentlemen not M embers 3 0 0 ~. 3y all other persons not being Members 4 0 0 .. 2 0 0 Members of the Society may attend without subscribing. ** To prevent interruption at the Lec` ures, subscribers Anna be admitted to the Hall atter the Lecture has corn aenced, E. W. WILLIAMSON, Secretary. Law Society's Hall, October, 1864. LT ANT I Q AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Offices-2, Old Broad.street, London, E.O. ISSIJ4 OF SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS, (Ohio Division) Payable in London. 4,C00,C 00 Dollars. Due in 1883, Coupons due Ist January a nd Ist July. Ocoottred b a Regitered Mortage on the Incom e and all l o r Porate Ri y ghts, Plsivileges, Lagnds, Franchises, Plant, and I gert of teOhio Division of the Railway. a_ n e Bo Y nds h are O redeemable at par in New Yorlc, or in Lon ;at 45. 6d. per dollar. and are transferable wi. bout stamp k r : ndorsement ; Interest Coupons are attached to the Bonds, talYilble semi. annu 1 y, at the Cons 'Mated Bank in London, is the fixed rate of 4s. to the dollar. The Wads will be clVd at 66, at wh'ch rate Bonds of 1,000 dollars will cost Ttlfig., carrying Coupons due January 1, 1865. I.oooe Coupons represent £t4 per annum on each Bond of _,,. dollars or 9b per cent interest on price of issue. ~ri;le several divisions of the Atlantic and Great Westen a a 'fWa have been cmsolida' ed under the government of 'w a r e Cobb, Esq., whose reput tion as a Banker and Kan ./kn.', Administrator is established in Europe as well as in w e erica. Mr. Robb, as President of the Atlantic and Great li n 4 te c rn Railway Through he Direction of the Erie and other toiii;°l7lling,' the Route between New York and St. . .soas to secure unity of action. The 'roe price of issue has been fixed at (6. terms of issu; are as follows : 8 £ s. d. io Per cent on application, being 11 5 0 per bond of 1030 d 011.15 n on allotment „2210 0 „ II 1 5 ~ 19th November „ 33 15 0 k II ti ~ 19th December „ 33 15 0 ~ £7 Coupon due 1 t J , 19th January „ 47 6 0 less 8 anUttry £l4 , 10 0 ,4v11,1 scribers have the option of paying the instalments in u.u,V ) ce , and will be allowed a discount of 9 per cent per an . ~on. such pre-paymen s. 4 -- , ,, ,!ter allotment, Scrip Certificates will be issued to bearer." v ma Certificates will be exchanged for Bonds on paymt•nt of the final instalment .1; ° rrfla of Application may be obtained at the Consolidated otp alk , , or at the offices of the Company, No. 2, Old Broad "er, London, 8.C., or of E. F. SATTERT -strHWAITE, Broker, 28. Throgmortoneet, London , B . C . .tendon, 0ct.12, ise4. --:----_ ATLANTic and GREAT WESTERN toN .. h ltAiLwAy Issue of SECOND MORTGAGE jaYable• in London. — NOT ICE IS HEREBY eel —4A. That no Application for th ese Bonds will be re ved atter the 31st inst. - By Order. O. 2, Old Broad-street, October el,lBBl. E T H.—Mr. ESKELL'S PATENT. --The j ksicer exclusive right to this Patent was kecure.l_ to Ma:,eAtof Grosvenor-sreet, Grosvenor-quarb J Royal Seal (July t 17, 1860), an d can s only be pyrocuarred at 40, 0 Jesidence, where specimens maybe seen, and every infor to lastl can be obtained. Under this l'atent, Artificial Teeth, a lifetime, are made, and fitted in a few hours without or extractions. They support loose teeth, and protect , h .,;uer gum; their resemblance to nature is perfect and un 7 Za etable. and they are guaranteed for mastication and ;.',l_Eleulatiou. Treatise on the subject sent for seven stamps. nsultations free. OPINIONS OP THE PRESS. "Air. Fake]] dental -surgeon, has succeeded in producittg - "Metal teeth: and so constructing them that they last their I l urPose a lifetime. The process has been patented, . . promises to be most' valuable. Court Journal, August 1860. SUrPeSing novelty in the adaptation of artificial teeth to ..e gum by a patented principle, which secures the most Perfect aid, com bined with the greate st ease and agreeable 4PPearance." — M orn i n g Advertiser. August 9, 1860. Decayed teeth stopped, &c. Terms strictly moderate. _ 8 , Grosvenor-street, Bond-street. THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER. The REAL NICKEL SILVER introduced more than thirty years ago by WILLIAM S. BURTON, when LATED by the patent process of Messrs. Elkington and Co., is, beyond all comparison, the very best article, next to sterling silver, that can be employed as such, either use fully or ornamentally, as by no possible test can it be distin guished from real silver. A s mall useful sot, guaranteed of ' d ura bility, as follows : •st quality for finish and uurannul, ----- - - - Fiddle Thread King's or Old Bead: or Brun or Silver Pattern swiek Lily Pattern Pattern Sze. ---- --- --- --- £ a. d. X s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 12 Table Forks 1 13 0 2 0 0 2 4 0 2 10 0 12 Table Spoons 1 13 0 2 0 0 2 4 0 2 10 0 12 Dessert Forks ......... 1 4 0 110 0 112 0 115 0 1 , 2 _ Dessert Spoons 1 4 0 1 10 0 1 12 0 1 15 0 44 Tea Spoons 2 6 'E gg Spoons, gilt bowls OlO 0 0 12 0 0 12 0 0 13 0 Sauce Ladles 0 6 0 0 8 0 0 8 0 0 9 0 1 2 Gravy Spoon 0 6 6 0 9 0 010 0 0 11 0 salt Spoons, gilt bowls 0 3 4 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 6 1 'lustard Spoon, gilt bowl 0 1 8 0 2 ( 0 2 0 0 2 3 1 lair of Sugar Tongs 026036 0 3 6 0 4 0 , van- of Fish Carvers 1 4 0 1 1 10 0 1 19 0 1 10 6 i.• Soup Knife 0 2 6. 0 4 0 0 5 6 0 6 i P Ladle 0 10 0, 0 12 0 0 16 0 0 17 0 Sugar Sifter I • ---. .....__ Total 9 19 912 9 0,13 9 Gl4 17 3 AnY Ya article to be had singly at the same prices. An oak Vest to co n t a i n th e a bove, and a relative n umber of knives, tr e, £2158. Tea and coffee sets, dish cover s and corner dishes, . 6 ,uet and liq ueu r frames, &c., at proport ionate p rices. All - " l ids of re-plating done by the patent process. W to r, ILLIAM - S. BURTON, GENERAL FURNISHING IRONMONGER , by a ppo intment th • Prince of Wales, rends a CATA LOGUE hj s i i PPst paid. It contains unwards of 600 Illustrations of s tiv limited Stock of Sterling Silver and Electro Plate, Nickel bi ab e e r 9 4l .4 Britannia Metal Goods, Dish Covers, llo_- . water it an Stoves, Fenders, lliarle Chueneypieces, Kitoti Clo V eB ' LamPs, Gaseliers, Tea Trays, Urns, and Kettles, ra e s, Table Cutlery, Baths Toilet Ware, Turnery,lron and 1%1. iiBll3edstpads, Bedding, Bed-room Cabinet Furniture, sr,•., /t oo _data of Prices , and P ans of the Twenty large Show er at 39, Oxfoid-strect, ; I,IA, 2,3, ancl4, Newman 1-oild, 4,6 , and 0, Perry's-pia:le ; and 1, NeWinan - Yard , a. N°. 22,574. Now ready, in crown Bvo., with a Portrait of the Princess, 6s, MEMOIRS of HENRIETTA CARACCIOLO, of the rinces of Porino, ex-enedictine Nun. Richard Bentley, New Burlinßgton-street. Now Ready, in Crown Bvo., FOOTPRINTS ON THE ROAD. By CHARLES KENT. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. --------- NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF "LADY AUDLtY'S SECRET," &a. FOURTH EDITION, READY, T DOCTOR' S " WIFE. John Maxwell and co., P u blishers, 122, Fleet - street. _-------- .:-------__ NEW NOVEL BY GUSTAVE AIIIA.ED. 'l.los Day, in 3 vols., r r TIE BEE-HUNTRESS By GUSTAVE ADIAII,D. John 11faxmli and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. ___.----. NEW NOVEL BY A CLERGYMAN. This Day, in 2 vo 0., SKERDALE PARK. A Novel. AJohn Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. A. NEW NOVEL BY A NEW AUTHOR. This day, in 3 vols., ASPER TRENCHARD. CI NA By BRACEDRIDGE HEMYNG, Barrister-at-Law, John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet street ------ THE NEW NOVEL. . This day, at all Libraries, in 3 vols., vg - ART 1 N T 'B IN. VA. By Lady CAsiVBELT,. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Flect-street. __--------- THE QUARTERLY THIS REVIEW, No. CCXX.XIL, is Published DAY. CONTENTS. I. The French in Cocin China and Cambodia. Workmen's Benefit Societies. 111. Venetian State Papers. IV. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible. V. Health of the Army in India. VI. Photography. VIL John Gibson Lookhart. VIII. SirJas. Wilde on a Digest of Laws. IX. Dr. Newman's Apologia. John Murray. Albemarle-street. 56 TH REPRESENTATION. —The WIZARD of theNORTH TO-NIGHT at Eight. 55th appear ance of Miss ANDERSON, the Second-sghted SybiL— Secure your stalls and tick ets at the Ticket-office, 23, Pioca dilly. Day Performance every Saturday at Three. THE SOLDIER'S LEGACY. -Mr. GERMAN RE ED'S New Opera di Camera TO-NIGHT, at Eight, entitled THE SOLDIER'S LEGACY, composed by G. A in Maciarren, Esq., an d written by John Oxenford. Esq.. which Miss R. H en d e rson, M m r. isWsihiffin the New Sh per ,and Miss Poole (by the kind peron ot Oa Com pany), will appear. Concluding with TOO MANY COOKS, sustained by Miss D'Este Finlayson, Mr. J. A. Shaw, and Mr. Whiffim—ROYAL GALLERY of ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regent-street. Unreserved seats, ls.,stalls, 3s. ; stall chairs, 58. - ; may be secured in advance without fe,?. T " 0 XFOR D , 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Orford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). Coto T terry), OIS E RP EV HEE AUX ENFEBS, by NING will be nroduced ( Offen fourth bach.im te in this MASANIELLO, MARTHA, LA TROVATORE, and THE FAVORITE, &c , by the tollowing Artistes, viz , Misses Russell, Fitz-Henry,Walmsley, Tyrrell, &o. With augmented Baud and Chorus, condurte d b y Mr. F. Jontqhmans. Mr. JACKSON HANES , tho Champion bkater, in his il per lormane., on the Draw in g Room Skates, of Quadrles, Varsovieane9, &c. IJNSWO lan (or any other man), EUG ENE, 11. Nash, Herr Hermann, and Mdlle. Cavalho. LE PETIT BLONDIN. Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, Is.; private boxes, les. 6d. jTRAND MUSI CK HALL. PROMENADE CONCERTS EVERY EVENING. With a full Band of Forty Performers. Conductor, Mr. le Kingsbury. Vocalists :—Madllcs. Wilke, Moncton; and Mayer. Instrumentalists: —Violin, Signor Giovaani nast y to his ; Cornet, M. Duhem ; Pianoforte, M. Mattel, Piani Majesty the King of Italy. Admission, Is.; Private boxes,6d. ; 28. Com•rence at Eight. STICAND MUSICK HALL. MUSICK AT EIGHT O'CLOCK. COMICK AT TEN O'CLOCK. EVERY EVENING, THE GREAT VANCE AT HALF-PAST TEN. MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL GALLERY: established 28 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street. NEW ADDITION. A full length portrait model of DR. COUTY DE LA POMMERAIS, the Poisoner, taken from the original photograph, by Mons. Trinquart, of Paris, from life, is now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. Admittance, ls. ; Napoleon Rooms and Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. Open from 11 till 5, and from 7 till 10. ESSE X.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has for DISPOSAL, a FREEHOL 0 RESIDENCE, near Bra i n t r ee, standing in its own grounds. It contains four bed-rooms, four attics, drawing-room, diningoom, and offices, with coach - ho use, stabbling. lawn, pleasure and fruit g ardens of an acre, and a p addock of good pasture l water; fishing and hunting . in the neighbourhood; has been in the present owner's family for about 50 years. POSSeSSiOII can be had at an early date; price, land lax redeemed, to view, at the City Central Estate Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful infaid Tables, Paper weights, &0., in Italian, AlabaEer, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &o. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., Lonaon. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, interesting an d FOSSILS, which will grea tl y facilitate th stud of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY,e fad GEOLOGY, a t 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and HINE- K.A.Loar is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand. W.C. pRIZE MED A L.—INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANC IS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, 40., To the Queen and the Pt ince of Wales. (Established 1720.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, ' testifies to the excellence of the quality of klessrs. Tuckers manufacture. A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addresse d to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says:-- " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, I com mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with. tatted Wicks, patented.. 2s. 2d. per lb. Ordinary quality .• 2s. Od. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality .• .• Is. sd. per lb. S ec ond quality .. le. 3d. per lb. Third quality .• le. ld. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., 8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar. BED •E,OO/%1 CANDLES. " pRICE'S CANDLES, which will not drop grease when carried."—Thin, very hari candles, sold in boxes 18. and 3s. each, are recommended as the best carriers. " EXTRA. HARD 5.12 CHAMBER CANDLES," sold In bolus 2s. each. Thicker candles intended for those W ho will not burn thin. " SHERWOOD ECONOMIC BED LIGHTS," in packets of 36 candles for one shilling, intended for use where cheapness is a great object, will be found an improve ment on the ordinary candles, as they gutter less. Special candle ticks to fit thin candles, Is. and 2s. 6d each'. reducing bockets; making them fit any candlesticks, 2d. TOILET SOAPS. Sherwood Brown Windsor Soap, with a pleasant scent,. Belmont Glycerine Soap, contains erioe's Glycerine. Camphor and Glycerine Soap, fo tender skins in winter. GLYCERINE. SHEBWOODOLE : "Price's Glycerine" may be Cleans gloves and removes had from any Chemist, in grease and other stains. capsuled bottles, lettered Perfumed, in capsuled NA " Prices Patent," from 6d. , tles, 6d. and la. each. upwards. Impure Glycerine has been sold fin the state ment that ft is "equal to Prices." Retail through any Grocer. Wholesale by PrkoTs Patent Caudle come y_( London. • ; / (.. C.f.' 14;/a5l---1/6// (' . . . . p -to .......„...„, •:ii , .. . ,t,2 ••)0,.. .. •:..;* ... - ..t• 41:111- •' • - . -,: . - * " ' Ai ' ,'' 4-- * 1 ra;Xiii ( " - •-1 •," i‘ '‘.. , A. . a cjj ....„ . , 0... , i 4 . ~.... -.35., tit ...... . i - -....-- .... ..?,,- ~ '- t ---A.,,, --A., , , - i ^ -, k, i'7*' :..-,-- • •,..k41. 1 4,, , , • A"Dr E i r ire ~ -,,,(, 4,0. 1. 'f" 13 S. 4 ( *r..,... .:<.' 4. k .. .., • .1% ' -....... . ,1.,„ ,: _,, ,,, ' - . Trade with Foreign Nations. PR1CE...... ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. from the barge to the steamer going on as they s'eatned down the river. Earl DE GREY and Rirox said, in reply, that ho con sidered the subject was one of very gray.) importance, and vary properly brought under the notice of Government by the deputation ; nt the same time he wished it to be un derstood that the Government were fully alive to the matter, end he had already been in frequent and earnest commuiea lion with Sir G. Grey upon the whole queqien. Evcty attention should be given the subjects brought under consi deration, and especially those practical suggestions which did not involve the closing of Purflmf, which, if acceded to, would be followed by similar requetv.s from all ports of the kingdom where marzaes were placed. The deputation might rely, however, upon :to whole nutter having tli most careful con,.ideral ion of the Government. Alter s me further conversation tho deputation thanked his lordship for the courtesy whit which they had been re c.:ived, and then withdrew. The select committee appointed to inquire into the arrangement between the Foreign-office and the Board of Trade in reference to the trade with foreign nations, have considered the matters to them re ferred, and have agreed to the following report : "In conducting the inquiry referred to them, your committee have had the advantage of the evi• deuce of the present and of the late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; of the President of the Board of Trade and of one of his predecessors; of the principal of permanent officials in both depart , /nents; of Mr Morier, a member of the diplomatic service; and of several gentlemen, presidents of chambers of commerce and others, representing im portant commercial interests. " There has also been laid before Ulm many docu ments of importance, which they have ordered to be printed as an appendix; among others, the corre spondence between the two departments in refe rence to the Belgian and Italian commerciai treaties referred to them by the house. "The committee find that the present arrange ment between the two offices contemplates that the Foreign Secretary should refer all matters cone nected with trade which come before him to the Board of Trade—for advice, if they re late to questions on which he has to act ; and for publication, if they relate to information which it is desirable that the Government should make known. "In consulting the Board of Trade, the general system appears to be that an official letter is written by one of the Under Secretaries for Foreign Affairs to ono of the Secretaries of the Board of Trade, who conveys to the Foreign-office the opinion of the President after he had the opportunity of confer ling with the officials of his own department. It sppears to be the rule, though not without excep. tion, that neither the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the Parliatnentai y Under. Secretary, nor the perma nent cfficials in the Foreign-office, are in personal communication with the permanent cfficials in the Board of Trade, and that consequently the comma. nication between the two departments is conducted by correspondence, except in so far as the Foreign THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1864. 110 ?ERSONS SEEKING LANDED ES'iATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RisSIDENCES, FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPERTIES GENERALLY — To BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing It varied selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. OWNERS OF I OFERTIF.S wishing to Sell or Let can em brace the oppot tanity that the medium of this Register affords, by sending the particiVars of their properties to the Estate Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most cases introduce imillediate customers, where the property is of an eligible chara ter, thereby avoid ing the disaavantages of delay and its attenaaut incon veniences. 'MERE IS NO MARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pnr inset is introduced through Messrs. Lumley.'s Agency, tad then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Laud Offices, 67, Chancery-lane. London. • VUR NIT U RE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and 12 FLOORCLOTH, CARTHAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First-class goods at second-class prises. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of. ground. Every article warranted. WatilitGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and Co. are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo ddm , -able engraving's of every description of Furniture and iseasteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gi atis and post-tree on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised scale : • A six-roomed Parsonage £74 3 0 An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto ........ • A Twelve;roomed ditto L'ogether with a Price List of purifie d Bedding, and a mass of valnable informationto all requiring household furniture, carpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentlemen in or near Great rttalvern, Southampton; Chichester. Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great Brita.u. COBBETT and CO.. General House Furnishers, Dcptf ord bridge, London. S.E. TVO TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the DIRECTORS of the CITY OFFICES COMPANY (Limited) have this day made a Ca I of £2 at I h os. per Share and on the Shares of the Company, payable Te Agra Afasterman's Bank (limited), N.cholas-lane, on or before TUESDAY, the 24th of November next; and Interest, at the rate of 10 per cent., will be charged on all Calls not then paid. By order of the Board, G. W. BENWELL, Secretary. N.B.—No Transfer of Shares, upon which the Call bee not been paid, will be rejstered. 27th October, 1864. LONDON AND LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. Fire Capital, £1,000,000. Life Capital, £lOO,OOO. London: 73 and 74, King William-street, E.C. CLIAIRMAN. F. W. RUSSELL, Esq., M.P. (Chairman of the National Discount Company). DEPIITY-CTIAIRMEN. Fire—Mr. Alderman and Sheriff DAKIN. Life—J. 11. MACKENZIE, Esq., Gresham-house, Cld Broad-street. The increase in Government Duty for 18E3 over) „ „,, 1812 I s the largest of any London office. v z.: j The Fire Premiums for 1863 amounted to more thin .E6',000 Being an Increase over 1862 of nearly ......... .£40 9 ,0 0 The New Lite Premiums for 18E3 we e...• 3 Home and Foreign Insurances on f ivourable terms. For Life Rates Stir PS Features, pectuses. W. P. CLIREHUG EL General Manager. T HE QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital, Two Minims Sterling. Queen Insurance Buildings, Gracechurch-street, London, E.C. Queen Insurance Buildings. Liverpcol. At the ANNUAL MEETING of the Proprietorn held at LiVerp,ol, on the 27th October, 1804, BERNARD HALL, req., Chairman of the Company, in the chair, the Directors' Report fur the year stated : That the Fire Premiums for the year amounted to .£101,035 Being an increase over the preceding year of 30,785 That 352 Life Policies were issued i0r..... 205,088 Being - an increase over the preceding year of 57,508 That the New Life Premiums were...... Being an increase over the preceding year ot 2,421 That the Life Income was .. 23,531 And that upwards of ID per cent. ot the tntire Net • Premiums was added to the Life Fund. That the Subscribed Capital was increased t 0.... 1,878,720 That the Paid-up Capital was increased to .. 18',671 That after providing for al! outstanding Claims, the Fire Reserve would stand at 114,312 Making the Fantle in hand, atter providing for the Divid nd A avidend was declared of 2s. per ;hare, being 10 per Cent. short on the paid up Capital. The Ch ,irman, in his a tdrers to the thareholders, dreW their attention to the following unusual adva.tage afforded among others to Lite Assurers by this Company : - The Outside Expenditure for the General Management of the Company, chargeable to the Life Department, is abso lutely restricted blny the Deed of Settlement to Ten p er Cent. of the Net Lite e. ost i restriction shows that the into:est com e of th This e participating Po iloy Holders tve closely watched and carefully attended to by the Com pany. Attention is especially called to this point, as the pro portion of premiums expended for management must largely influence Profits and Bonnets. The Lite Bonus declared in 1803 averaged 48 per Cent. of the premiums paid by the assured, and was in soma cases as high as 75 per Cent. J. MONCRIEFF WILSON, General Manager. JOHN E. LEYLAND, Secretary. T HE IMPERIAL MERCAN TILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION, Limited. Capital subscribed, X. 5,000,100, la 100,000 shares of 110 each. Paid up, 00 , ,C00. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. JOHN CHAP.SLA.N, Esq., Chairman. Xenophon Ball!, Esq. Charles Belson, Esq, E. J. Coleman, Esq. G. G. Maophers , m, Esq. Mr. Alderman Dakin. Si. H. Pelly. Bart. James Dickson, DA. W. Scholefield, Esq„ MP. P. D. Radow, Esq. Sir S. I). Scott, Part. J. 0. Hanson, Esq. H. D. Seymour, Esq., M.P. W. H. Harford, Esq. Joseph Thornton, Esq. G. F. Holroyd, Esq. F. G. Westmorland, hs j. J. G. Hombre, Esq. Alfred Wilson, Esq. Capt. J. Gilbert : Johnston. M. Zarifi, Esq. RANKERS, The Bank of England. The Agra and Masterman's Bank, Limited. The Bank of London. The Union Bank of London. • Eir W. Miles, Bart., and Co., BrlstoL SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards and Co., and Messrs. Ashurst, Morris, and Co. MANAGERS. Henry J. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq. This Assoehtion receives money on deposi t at notice, and for fixed periods, on terms to be agreed upon makes advances on approved securities, and effects purchases and sales of stocks, shares, and debentures; negotiates loans, and under takes general financial business. Communications to be addressed to the Managers. By order. W. C. WIN TERBOTTOM, Secretary. TEMPORARY OFFICES. Crosby House, 90, Bishop ate-street Within. SOllO ESTATE, HOUSE, AND GENER AL BUSINESS AGENCY OFFICES.—Persons requiring Freehold or Leasehold Property, or having Business and Houses to be dispose , ' of, should apply to Mr. CHARLES MURRAY, Auctioneer and Valuer, 20, Gerrard-street, Soho, W. Valuations for Probate Administration, Fire Claims, Rail way Compensations, &o. Rents Collected. 3lA r D es A to M rer E of yyouth R ACHEL,.and t beauty, hegreat tatesn, s anopp ortunitydonly to caution the aristocracy and nobility against persons who are vending dangerous compounds, the principal ingredients of which are composed of the most deadly leads and other cosmetics, for bleaching and whiting the lace, such com pounds being spurious imitations of Sfadaml Rachel's Arabian 'toilette requisites, which can only be obtained at her residence, 47A, New Bond-street. EET H. -IMPROVED MECHANICAL DENTlSTRY.—Professional abilities and great artistic skill have been most successfully combined in the production of ARTIFICIAL TEETH. upon a new principle. The real value of the perfection of the art of Dentistry will be experi enced by all wishing to avail themselves of professional assistance by =suiting Mr. ALBERT, 34, Great Russell street, Bloomsbury, whose experience has enkbled him to effect such admirable, convenient contrivances by artificial means, and which are so perfectly efficient DINNEFORD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESIA has been, durirg thirty years. emphatically sanctioned by the Medical Profession, forivy accepted by the Public, as the Best Remedy Acidity of the Stomach, Heartburn. Headache, Gout, and Indigestion, and as a Mild Arient for delicate constitut more es. dlfor Laes and Children. Combined with ions the , A coidula p tedLemon Syrup it forms an agreeable Effervescing Draught, in which its Aperient qualities are much increased. During Hot Seasons, and, above all, in Hot Climates, the reaular use of this sim ple and e egant remedy has been found highly beneficial. Manufactured (with the utmost attention to strength and purity) by DINNEFORD and CO.. 172, New Bond-street, London ; and sold by all respectable Chemists throughout the Empire. 'NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and .111 most useful invention of the day, AQUA AMARELL A. Messrs. JOHN GOS NELL and CO., 3, Kinr-court, Lombard street, London, Perfumors to her Majesty, respectfully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid. which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one -guinea per battle, or in half bottles, Ks. ill Testimonials from art fetes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted respectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Goenell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princes 5 of Wales. -- The enormous piggery et Portesham, in Dorset, now contains a herd of swine nearly 4,000 in number. The animals are chiefly fed oa wheat and maize. Pig meat is 2s a score dearer than it was this time last year, owing to the scarcity of butchers' meat in general. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills are the most gentle yet most effective aperients, and therefore hotter cal culated for a family medicine than any other drug. They always set the stomach right, rouse the liver, stimulate the kidney, and thoroughly cleanse the whole system. Hollo way's pills are most useful in chronic weakness of the et( mach induced by luxurious living, sedentary habits, or other causes. They have restored the emaciated to health after every other means had failed. While they are puri fying they are strengthening, while regulating they are in creasing nervous and muscular power. These pills do not excite any violent action iu the body; .hence they are spe cially euitcd to the young and feeble, whose constitutims may be irretrievably injured by more powerful medicines. certainly have indignantly repudiated any - such attempt. The gentleman whom the English Government dispatched to Berlin were told that they need not alarm themselves., and might go home. What reduction might bo made in the new tariff would be made in favour of the whale world ; but political circumstances might prevent anything being done for a considerable time. The promise has been ful• filled. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. Railways. Miles Opened. Receipts. 1664. 18C3. 1864. X Belfast and N. Counties 134 13( 27.01 2,057 Ite!fast and County Down 49 49 G9l 610 Myth and Tyne . 23 28 1,9;6 1,9 3 Bristol and Exi:ter - l2ll 1211} 6,31 6, L4O Caledonian Cambrian Cockerzno uth & Workington 8i 81 357 3i 0 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 362 331 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage Ol Gi 161 154 Cork and Youghal .. . 321 321 415 385 Cornwall Ol 01 1,032 1.600 Deeside l - 17 Dublin & 14ellastJunction 63 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9ll 64 Furness, dr.c 5O 5 i Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrfk. r &E.Union Great Northern 387 853 Great North of Scotland 5B 68 ti t. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 ¶lt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind .) 8875 3735 Great Western l2lO 1109 Hull and Homsea .. 13 Inverness & Aberdeen Jum .. 1065 1065 Inverness & Perth Junction 1195 195 Irish North-Western 145 145 Kent Coast 27 27 Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 401 Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 Limerick and Foynes 261 2(4 Llanelly 46 461 Llynvl Valley London & North-Western London and Blackwall 6l 6 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2671 2611 London, Chatham, & Dover 725 725 Do. Metropolitan Extension 116 105 Man.,Sheilleld,& Lincolnsh Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 95 95 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6514 641 Midland GLWestn. of !rind 262 2591 Monkland 714 715 Monmoutlish. Rail. & Canal 44 44 North British. Edin.. Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095 North London 9 North Staffordshire 254 Ithynuiey l9k Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern 133 Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon ..... 701 South-Eastern 3OB Taff Vale 67 365 339 1,455 1.461 1,715 1,612 277 191 2,480 1,095 2,924 2,4 t 5 9,221 8,699 33,305 32,173 36,971 33,031 1,619 1.704 611 632 0,639 9,626 6432 k 62,7.16 109 1,441 1,24 T 2,065 1,535 1,896 1,617 1,110 475 34,592 34,474 226 148 153 96 683 527 302 407 166,544 69.9( 6 1,829 1,837 24,461 22,t 27 20,431 19,925 13,073 5,900 1,480 1,345 18,134 17 711 1,246 I,t 5 1,64! 1,209 2,267 1,901 47,756 42,595 6,4.6 6,181 3,483 1,683 2,712 2,432 5834 22,;67 21,298 1003 6 ,675 57,6:4 U 3,139 3,1 0 262 8,508 8,121 194 810 159 113 6,664 6,438 118 5,8,0 b,(85 68 958 679 75i 3,679 3,521 306 24,9 , 2 22,357 57 6,713 6,836 105} 2,503 2.10 1U 166 t( 4 431 2,827 2,108 31 3 6 836 77 1,159 1,290 274 811 829 621 5,187 1,943 10 679 6'o 13 1, • 45 065 85 1, 01 819 Ulster lO5l Vale of Vale of Neath 431 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall 271 W.Hartlepoolilarbr.&Ltail 521 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO Whitehaven Junction l3 Whitchaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction 26i Bombay, Baroda, & Ccn. India 1851 Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish Eastern Bengal Eastern of France 1135 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1335 Great Central of Belgium 22./ Great Indian Peninsula 6 3 Great Luxembourg 334 Great Southein of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madras 63: Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 651 Northern of Canada ... 9B Northern of France 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman .. 4Bl Paris, Lyons & Mediterrn lBO5 Paris and Orleans l6ll renin, biwo 771 Scinde l(5 South Austrian Southern of France .. 770 Victoria Welland 25 West Flanders 75 West &N- %Vesta of France 9 828 40 , 724 35,308 78f 1;001 . 519 2 , 4 3 . :7 42. 185} 1,211 3,C62 185 5,045 6,155 1904 15,15 4,54 1302 7',2:3 01,274 0332 23,143 15,898 1335 27,142 21,751 220 6,141 5,725 153/4 11,032 4,578 134 4,922 4,3 6 79 562 461 3, 5 12,155 13,773 447 0,378 (.1.3 050 19,537 20,305 91 3,665 i,73) 697 6.54 t 9,833 44 . 1,033 ow 481 '595 Ecii 1713 154,174 140,688 1191 7,056 70,613 77; 6 6 445 105 1494 65,930 68,911 OSO 27,u30 k 0,5 g 196 7,030 7,1•#1 25 477 15,7 75 1,251 1,063 950 53,192 44,635 The Erith Expluion, Yesterday Eirl Do Grey and Ripon received at the War 011Ile a deputation from the inhabitants of Erith and Belvedere to present a memorial relative to the Into catastrophe, and especially calling fcr inquiry into the management of Purileet and otter Government magazines. The deputation was headed by the Von. Archdeacon Smith, vicar of Erith, and included the following gentle nun :—Dr Broom, J. Parish, Rev. J. Bernan, W. Onyer, A. T. Jay, C. Hortridge, W. Everett, A. Wells, A. Hall, F. K. Daldy, J. L. Bidmead, C. Beadle, jun., Captain M'Killop, It.N., mid J. Roos, tecrotary to the committee. Tho following is a copy of the memorial:— To the Right Honourable Earl do Grey and Ripon, her Majesty's Seeretety (1 Sate for War. " The memorial of the undersigned inhabitants of the parish of Beth, in the county of Kent, showoth, " That by the recent fearful of explosion of gunpowder in their parish, which has resulted in much loss of life and de• struction of property, their attention has been drawn to the legislative enactments regulating the manufacture, packing, conveyance, and storage of gunpowder. "That upon careful consideration of the same they are compelled to regard them as inadequate to the duo proteo tion of life and property. " Your memorialists therefore pray that- it may please you to take the matter into your serious and immediate consideration, and to adopt such means as may seem to you best calculated to secure a searching investigation into the operative effects of the present enactments and orders which regulate the manufacture, packing, storage, and conveyance of Government powder, as well as to the manner in which such enactments and orders aro complied with and o =led out. And that, pending the investigation prayed for, you will, if possible, cause the establishment at Purffeet to be closed, in order that the testing operations, the loading, unloading, and shipment of powder (fraught as your me morialists believe with appalling danger) may be ousponded. " Your memorialists urge the prayer of their memorial upon your attention, under the oonvidion that, in common with a large number of her Majesty's subjects, they are in great jeopardy and peril, and that it is possible to frame such enactments and regulations as shall prevent a recur rence of the late fatal disaster. " Signed on behalf of the memorialists, in accordance with a resolution passed to that effect, this 14th day of 0o- I ber, 1564. " CUAILLES SMITII, Vicar of Erich. " HERBERT 131100/1, }Churchwardens." " JOIIN PARISI!, Archdeacon SMITH stated, in support of the memorial, that tho deputation had great confidence in the Government both with regard to the control and supervision at present exercised over their magazines and manufactures, as well as in the attention they would give to the important matters of consideration referred to in the memorial ; and therefore the deputation felt it a satisfactory duty to bring under the notice of the Government every circumstance in connexion with the late calamity which might lead to the prevention of similar occurrences, as well as to suggest whore the manage. ment or enactments relating to gunpowder wore weak or de fective. The Archdeacon, after alluding to the terrible effects of the late disaster, for which his parishioners as well as surrounding localities had suffered so severely in loss of life and property, alluded most pointedly to the dangers which some believed to be attendant upon the establishment at Parthot. In the late explosion, he said, about 60 tens of powder blew up, but at Purfleet no loss than 2,300 tons wore stored, or more than 40 times the quantity. Should an ac cident occur the consequences were incalculable ; but it was not too much to say that the surrounding districts would be destroyed, and London itself affected to a most fearful ex tent. If in asking that Purfieet might be temporarily closed it was asking that which the Government could not grant, the deputation would urge upon his lordship the necessity of making a most searching investigation into its manage ment as well as into all the circumstances attending the storage of gunpowder at the Government magazines, and the points for consideration were these : —Whether it is necessary to store largo (or almost unlimited) quantities of powder in ono magazine —whether a number of small magazines, sufficiently far apart to be beyond the limits of danger to each other, would not Le as serviceable— whether the present magazines aro constructed upon the best and Barest principles, or whether modern science may not suggest improvements—whether the casks in which the powder is packed are of the most suitable material, and whether in shape and make they aro adapted to effect per fect security against leakage—who her in the transit of powder, by rail or river, between the powder mills and the several magazines, such rules and regulations are laid down and enforced as to prevent the probability of danger— whether the testing operations at Purfleet etnnot be rt. moved altogether from the eontigui'y of a magitw;nc— whether the rule should not be strictly enforced, " that nothing but powder should be stored in any powder maga zine," and whether the ball cartridges now at Purfl,et can not be stored elsewhere—whothir the regulations for barges moored alongside when unloading or shipping powder aro as stringent and cautiously carried out as is required by the tremendous consequences involved. Capt. M'KILLor, R.N., called attention to the necessity for proper regulations for lighining conductors, and referred to the dangers arising from passing steamers, some of which wer3 in the habit of taking iu powder from barges which were taken in tow, the operation of removing the powder SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JO-URNALS, TIMM—Tit the returning warmth and lingering bright ness of a " St. Luke's summer" Ws not easy to remember that we may soon have to provide in haste and confusion for the " wayfarers, wanderers, and foundlings" composing the class of houseless poor." Bat in three or four weeks the days will be vary short, the nights very long. There may be many degrees ci frost, and other causes may send into the 'streets the weak, ill-taught, and desultory crea tures that can only earn a livelihood under the most favour able circumstances, and with the utmost stretch of kind.. ness It shows the enormous. magnitude of the evils which charity has to contend with, that the miserable of the miserable, the utterly houseless, the beings without even a partnership in misery or a home in guilt, have been reckoned at en average [of several :thousand—as many, that is to say, as aro considered to deserve a representative in Parliament; If they aro so many, what must be the numbers of those who are still privileged to cross:a thresh hold, and may still obtain for the night a bed to lie on ? We have had cur share in urging upon the Legislature the necessity of removing what has been a national scandal. It is not a great matter comparatively, nor is it beginning at the right end—but taking the fact as we find it, no Government that hid an eye even to appearances could permit thousands to lie about our streets and open places like vermin, or molest passengers with the cry for a night's rest. In this country such a scandal is °veil - more tolerable than elsewhere, for in no country are there so many institutions, public and private, old and new, endowed or voluntary, for the relief of the destitute. So was introduced last session for the relief of thehouselm poor. The great diffi , was, that whereas- all-our institutions affect a local character—that is, local objects, local responsibility, local management—here was a class in its very definition with out locality; either they who are supposed to have foun dered midway in this labyrinth of rocks and shoals, or driftlese outcasts whose life's horizon has no beginning or end and whose course has no compass or chart ; or absolute foundlings, that is, children who have lost themselves in this forest of houses, and cannot retrace their way to a home which perhaps they canna describe. Who is to give so much as a night's lodging to these, when then they are believed to be only the head of a column counted by literal myriads ? At last the Metropolitan Board of Works, bear ing in mind the larger duties and the higher position they are daily assuming, accepted this moderate charge. So the Act was passed one of the last days of the session, and, after some correspondence with the Boards of Guardians, the Poor Law Board issued the explanatory Circular which appeared in our yesterday's columns. Taking the Act and the Circular together, we must consider that a great step has been taken towards the mitigation, perhaps the extinc tion, of this scandal, and, possibly, to the further alle viation of distress though not houseless and on the streets. Such of our readers as do not know the metropolis so well as we aro obliged - to know it will notice, with surprise, the very stinted modicum of relief which it is assumed that thousands will struggle for, and which it becomes a publio necessity to protect from abuse or misappropriation. The regulation ti ward," or place of reception, is to consist of two rooms, in each of which a continuous platform bedstead, like the raised portion of a dog-kennel, is divided by boards into widths of not less than 27 inches, Each sleeper is to be allowed clean straw, or cocoa fibre, in a loose tick, with a rug; and the women and children a little more covering. The rooms aro to be warmed and ventilated. There aro to be bath rooms, an .1 it is expected that every person admitted shall take the opportunity of a complete ablution. A yard for work is to be provided for the men, wfio are to be come pelled to do a task of work in return for their night's board and lodging. The meal given is not to be such in quantity or quality as to invite a repetition of the visit. The task of work, however, is the chief repellant relied on, and there is a special censure directed against allowing the lodger to depart without his task in consideration of his saving the union the cost of his breakfast. The practice has been found too agreeable to the habits of many of the lodgers. Here is a night's hospitality reduced to the very smallest scale. Perhaps a man ought to have passed a few nights in our low London lodginghouses to estimate duly the boon here offered to the houseless. We must, however, guard against a mistake our unofficial and unparochial readers may fall into. All this is substantially no novelty at all. Every parish and every union is bound to take in the houseless, •as i; has been adjudged long ago. But hitherto it has been the interest of parishes • and unions to offer as little accommodation as possible and fence it round with every possible obstr notion. This act makes it no longer their interest to bandy the houseless from one door to another. They are to do their duty heir old duty —and to render an account to the Metropolitan Board of Works, which will reimburse them for what they have done according to law; not, of course fir money payments. The directions of the circular appear to provide, as they should do, for the thorough supervision and record of a system which, it must be admitted, is liable to abuse. The class taken in hand, as a general rule, is one naturally and habi tually averse from labour and discipline ; hating scrutiny, desirous to live only from day to day, with no value for identity, and ready to undergo, if possible, a daily trans formation, if it could thereby obtain a daily supply for its wants. Superintendents and books are necessary not only to check the system but to improve and develop it into something better, and that, in cur opinion, is the most valuable and the most cheerful aspect of the matter. When we call the whole affair a work of necessity, we are aware that is this is at once the best and the worst thing we can say of it. What can be more necessary than that all this population should be housed every night in some fashion or other ? What cart come less under the bead of spon taneous, discriminating, delicate benevolence ? After all, the houseless are not they who suffer the most, and that most invite the interest of those who wish to make almsgiving and hospitality a means to some higher kindness and more abiding benefit. Tho poor forlorn wo men who struggle on for months with sickness, and want of all things, and then simply die out by long exhaustion, uctrionded and almost unseen, are to be sought out, as they do not present themselves for admission to vagrant wards to be barracked for the night, rationed in the morn ing, and then turned out with .a caution against too early a reappearance. Whole families do not suddenly take to the streets and enter the jaws of a union workhouse. They will first suffer everything, part with everything, and try every expedient that may be lawfully—not always lawfully —tried. The Poor Law Board carefully excludes the thought of this being a measure for such extensive forms of distress as we have had recently, by long frosts or lung stagnation of trade. When thousands aro famished sorties thing else must be done. They aro not " wayfarers," "wanderers," or "foundlings." The great mass of the work of charity therefore is not affected by this measure. That remains for private benevolence or the general admis nistration of the Poor Law, It will be found in due time, as sure as the seasons come round, that either in the thun der of discontent or the still small voice of silent suffering, misery makes its ever fresh appeal to those who have hearts and hands. There will be abundant need of them, and they will find enough to do, even though Parliaments, parishes, churches, and past generations have done so much to take the work out of private hands. HERALD.—Under the directions or with the authorisa tion of Earl Russell Mr Ward, her Majesty's consul general at Ilamburgb, has been travelling through the manufac turing districts, with the purpose of obtaining from the different Chambers of Commerce their advice and sugges tions as to the articles a reduction of the duty upon which shOuld be urged upon the Zollverein at its next re conside ration of its tariff rates. Mr Ward's mission has been greeted with considerable approval by a contemporary, who shows in his observations upon the subject that he knows very little more about the Zollverein and the commercial policy of Germany than he did two years ago, when he announced the intention of Prussia to enter into the Zollverein. We are sorry to be obliged to regard Mr Ward's labours as useless, if they are not positively mischievous, In the first place, it is to be regretted that he has lent himself to the circulation of a Very unfair and most un founded representation of the policy of the Prussian Government. Mr Ward says that whilst the treaty between France and the Zollverein was being negociated our Government entered into negociations with Prussia upon the same subject, and WaS met with the question, "What have you to concede?" but that eventually the Prussian Government promised to give England the same I privileges which it conceded to France ; thus leaving his hearers to draw the inference that Prussia was at first in disposed to put them upon the same footing as the French producers, and on'y after some pressure yielded. Tho fact is that the Prussian Government from the first intended that its concessions to France should be concessions to all other nations, and indeed employed the treaty with France much as the Emperor used his treaty with E ng l an d— as an instrument to break down the system of prohibition and pro tection. Several months before the treaty was signed Count Bornstoiff, the then Foreign Minister of Prussia, in his reply to a memorandum in which the Austrian Govern ment had raised objections to the treaty, declared that the object of the Prussian Government in entering into the treaty was to introduce into the Zollverein tho great economical reforms which, first carried out in England, had then, by the treaty with Fiance, been put into practice in the t so, industrially, most wealthy nations of Western Europe ; and ho went on to say—" We have in our negociations with France by no means been actuated solely by the idea of purchasing certain commercial advantages by corresponding concessions, but by the con viction that important alterations of the customs tariff are necessary in the well understood interest of the Zollverein, itself, and therefore without any reference to equivalents." The Prussian Ministry never thought for one instant of denying England the advantages of whatever reductions it might make in the tariff, and the Prussian people would Secretary consults the President as his colleague. " Your committee are of course unable to state to what extent this personal intercourse between the two heads of departments is carried on; but with regard to the official correepondence, they find that it is at the discretion of the Foreign Sccrctury whether he asks for the advice of the Board of Trade, or follows it, or gives reasons why he does not do so. "It appears to be customary for the Foregn office to forward to the Board of Trade all informa tion upon commercial matters received from mem bers of the diplomatic or thu consular services; but if a despAtch from a foreign Minister or consul con tains a reference to matters other than cammircial, the commercial information only is forwarded. " Witinhe exception of sine corfet pl,der6e with the consuls under the Mtroantilo Marine Act, there is, as a rule, no direct communication bet weer the Board of Trade and the members of the dip lomatic or the consular services. " With regard to the representations by the Carll-* merchl community to Government upon, foreign trade, then, appears to ho no iu'e or practice defin- ing to which department they should be naldv, but if they are made to the Board of Trade tht y are forwarded from thence to the Foreign-office, aud, if to the Foreign-office, the opinion of the Board of Trade is generally taken respecting them. "In the case of any individull merchant haling a complaint to make connected with foreign trade, if he applies to the Board of Trade his complaint is forwarded to the Foreign.offioe, and if ho applies direct to the Foreign-office it appears to be at the discretion of that office whether or not the opinion of the Board of Trade is taken, " There appears, also, to be no rule determining ,he Minister of wheal questions relating to foreign grade should be asked in Parliament. ".The Foreign-office does not generally hake known to the public the facts relating to trade of which it is informed, such as alterations in foreign tariffs, but for wards them to the Board. of Trade for publication by that department in the Gazette, "There appears to be a difference between the two departments in the manner in which they re. epectively manage such business as arises from their communication with each other. In the Board of Trade there are officers whose especial duty it is to attend to foreign commerce; but in the Foreign office there are no :such officers, that department apportioning almost all its business among its clerks geographically. " This being the arrangement between the two departments, your committee find, from the wit nesses they have examined, and also from memo. rills from chambers of commerce referred to them, that dissatisfaction, with regard to its present work- ing, is felt by the commercial community upon the following grounds:— " Ist. A. belief that, from the Foreign-office hav ing to take the opinion of another department, there is delay both in carrying on negotiations on com• mercial matters with foreign countries, and in carrying out the representations and in redressing the grievances of British subjects. " 2dly. A belief that there may be unnecessary delay in the publication of important information, from its not being isausd by the office which re• calves it. " 3dly. A fear that as the permanent officials whose duty it is to collect and give information con nected with foreign trade aro not in the Foreign. office, nor in persocal contact with the Foreign ,Secretary, the latter may not be in possession of the information necessary for him to treat such coma mercial questions as come before him. 4thly. A fear that, in addition to the want of the necessary information, the Foreign Secretary may, in such questions as have both a political and com mercial bearing, lose sight of the latter from the former alone being kept constantly under his eye by the officials connected with his own department. " sthly. A fear that the members of the diplo matic and consular eerviees may not be able to pro• mote the interests of commerce so efficiently as they would if they were in direct communication with a department informed respecting their interests, and— "6thly. A complaint by commercial men that they go to the Foreign SLeretary, he has to reftr their representations to the Board of Trade iu order to learn what action to tithe ; and if they makesucb representations to the President of the Board of Trade, he has no power to carry them out himself-- and that if, in cons(quenco of this double ticion between the two departments, they make repre sentations to both, they are not confident that the impression thoy make is the same in both cas-s, or that the action of the two offices will be harm; pious. "Upon examination of the permanent aficials in reference to the above complai-ts, your cAntnittee find that an opinion prevails at the Foreign office that either they are unfounded, or that they arite from inherent difficulties which cannot b 3 satis factorily removed ; but by the Boma of Trade, on the other hand, it is admitted that some of these complaints are. not without fourtitatiA And amt. ±,143 machinery needs improvement, "In order to remove the Ilisse . t4sfeeticrif feLe/bye the commercial community, Sahli corn' have most carefully considered the suggestions made to tliFm, which have tended in two distinct, or rather opposite, directions—on the one hand, that the Foreign-office should be self-sufficing for cornmer c!al as well as for other matters, and should no longer refer them to the Berra of Trade—an 3, on the other hand, that the present relation between the two officee should continue, but should be proved. "In favour of the first of these eeurse, the arguments alleged are : " Ist. That it is undesirable for one department to net by or through another, unless it is abziolutily unavoidable. "2dly. There was no necessary reason why the Foreign.-office should not have within itself thu ,riar:s of obtaining information upon commercial in It krs— ar,d that the Sole change needed would he tt.e estab is!,ment of a commercial department in Foreign-uflice, by the transfer thereto, from the Board of Trade, of two or three of its permanent flicials—and, " Lastly. That if the Foreign-office can be made self-sufficing in the conduct of commercial twines?, it would be more efficient, inasmuch as the Minis tt r who actually conducts all foreign affairs would be in direct communication not only with those servants of her Majesty who give him information from abroad, but also with the representatives of commercial interests at home, and with those ale cials whose duty it would be to inform him in rela. tion to such interests. "These opinions have been expressed by several witnesses, and especially with great cleareess by Mr Cardwell, as the result of his experience when President of the Board of Trade. On the other baud, strong objections have been made to such change by all the foreign secretaries examined by the committee, and by Mr Hammond, the perms. neat Under Foreign Secretary, on the grounds-- that it would lead to embarrassment in the transac tion of the business of the Foreign Office if there were within it a separate commercial department ; that the business of this office is already so great that it would be impossible without such depart ment to undertake the details of commerce; and that even if there were such a department it would still be necessary to consult the Board of Trade, on account of the intimate connection between foreign and domestic commerce. " Your committee do not consider that these obi jections are, in themselves, conclusive against a change which appears reasonable, inasmuch as it would simply oblige the Foreign Office to have within itself the means of obtaining information respecting the business it conducts; but they think there is much force in the argument that it would not serve the interests of our foreign commerce to leave them withcut the support and protection of a special department in the Government. "In considering this argument, your committee have thought it right to inquire into the functions performed by the Beard of Trade, and they find! these bo twofold—executive, including the adminisa. tralion of most important matters, such es railways and merchant shipping; and consultative, imply.. ing that its president is lo give advice to other de- partments of state upon trade, and to have under him officers who will enable him to do so. Yofir:r _ committee, however, land there has been a tendekey 4 - of late to the diminution of this consultative bust- ness of the Board of Trade, which is now consulted' by the ForPignaoffice much more than by other ctel partments; by the Treasury, and by the Cofonitta office, much less than formerly ; and by ther - intiiii. - ; office not at all. r 1 ., • 4 , Your committe e are o f opinionTher, iti‘ofder,cl l - 1, 4 ; secure harmonious ectio n .by the-Goverantritupen. commercial matters, if that departtadtt `' .l suited by one office, it sh&tild be ; es,' iustance„by_the India and Colonial effice,aa__Enb6h . as by the Fpreiguaoffico, in rclaticn to tuiffs loviedr upon British goods; end. that, . if 'commercial men;. t:re to be eypee',ed to leek to the Board ofTr4cle protect ,their „144 e other office, they ought tole able to find it in a s:aff especially devoted to such utject. " Your committee have also examined into the constitution of the Board of Trade, and they find that while there is no meaning in the title of board, its nominal members, such as the Lord Cnance!ior, the Speaker, and the Secretaries of State never attending, the relation in which the Vice-President stathis to the Praaident is one which leaves tho second officer in that department wi!hout such de finite duties as those fulfiled by the Parliamentary Under Secretary in either of the Secretaryships of State. They also find that the President is not nca cessarily a member of the Cabinet. j .. ..`- ;s. x ~ ~' y ' • 4k " Upon the supposition, then, that the Foreign.. dace continue to consult the Board of Trade, your committee have had brought before them two sug gestions:— "let. That there should be, within the Foreign. ; cffico itself, an officer or officers who should take special charge of the correspondence of the Board of Trado ; and— " 2dly. That the Board of Trade should bo put in direct communication with the members of the con sular and diplomatic services upon commercial matters. "Upon the first of these suggestions different opinions have been expressed, but, after carefully weighing them, your committee are of opinion that such departmental change would be of service. "To the second of thesesuggestions the committee have devoted much of their time; on the oae hand, the advantages of direct communication tetweem she department whose duty it is to promote cox. merco an; those servants of her Mejesty whcse duty it is to watch tho interests of such commerce abroad are self-evident. Oa th© other hand, inasig much as the membsrs of the consular and dip!omatic service must be appointed by the Foreign.effice, it may be inconvenient for them to be in communi cation with any other department. "Your committee, however, agree with the Earl of Malmesbury and with Sir Emerson Tennant and Mr. Mallet, the two gentlemen who have the charge of foreign commerce at the Board of Trade, in the belief that there will be no danger of cold lision between the two offices if all correspondence with consuls and foreign Ministers pass through the Foreign-office, so that the Foreign Secretary could acquaint the President of the Board of Trade if the instructions of the latter be at variance with his own. "Your committee think that if the Board of Trade were thus enabled to carry on commuuiel. tion through the Foreign-office, that department would be more quickly informed of such facts as it is its duty to publish ; would be able more speedily to serve the interests of individual merchants; and, in transactions in which its opinion is asked by the Foreign-office, to obtain full information without which its opinion is of little value. " Your committee conclude with the following rat commendations for the improvement of the relation of the Foreign-office to the Board of Trade : "Ist. That the Board of Trade be placed more nearly upon an equality with the Foreign-office than it is at present, in order that its opinion, when asked, may have due weight, and that its chief be always a member of the Cabinet. " 2dly. That the Board of Trade be put in direct communication with the members of the diplomatic) and consular serviccs, and that such communisation ba carriA on through the Fon igntcilice, with such provi6ions as shall prevent - " Lv • tly That uu eflicer or (Accra be eppoluted - iu the For Lip-office to conduct itb COrrez pf.altltt, ce with the Board of Trade." FXTP,AMIDINART CLAP OF TIITTNDEP..—The in* hrlbitants of Cheltenham wen , Ellaken in their buds at half-past four o'clock on Saturday morning by a trimen • dous peal of thunder and a flash of lightning of unn nal brilliancy. Many persons jurripA out of bed under the impression that their houses were abqut to tumble about their cars; but as the phenomena were not repeated, the alarm grad'2,ally subsided. It is supposed that the brief but extraordinary storm burst immediately over the parish church, for in the morning it was discovered that the lightning had entered tbe belfry, a lanthorn standing in a rcteas tut t; being dashed to pieces, the horn being t,liri yelled up, and the inktal fused IT the Litt, uLd the hag- Mentt3 scAttered about the apartment. - .Y 'x ;+3 CANTE B ri um R phant Success Yof HALL. T PRINCE PERFUME AND PRINCESS BOUQUET. 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